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Jules Wilson
Jules Wilson
BIO
Biography
Writer: Seen Reading (p: Freehand; e: HarperCollins)
WIP: a collection of linked pieces about life as an ageing queer with a focus on housing precarity (Canada Council Explore and Create grant and receipient of a Woodcock Fund grant from the Writers' Trust of Canada)
Recent employment/contracts:
Publicity Coordinator: Invisible Publishing
Senior publicist and Online Content Manager: House of Anansi Press
Host: CBC.ca, online book club
Host and Producer: 49thShelf.com
Praise for Seen Reading:
"[In Seen Reading,] Wilson has created a book about seeing people read that requires readers, it requires the space between the reader and the text, it requires us to look at it, take it in, judge it, to be voyeurs."—Globe and Mail, "Globe 100" (2012)
ADDRESS
City: Halifax,
Province/Territory: Nova Scotia
EMAIL
c/o TWUC
GENRE
Microfiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays
LANGUAGES
English
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Globe 100
Publication
Globe and Mail
Year
2012
Name
ReLit Award, finalist
Publication
Seen Reading
Year
2014
Name
Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year, finalist
Publication
Seen Reading
Year
2013
EQUITY INITIATIVE
As part of the Union’s Equity Implementation Plan, we are committed to increasing awareness of authors who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQI2S, or living with a disability. This author identifies as:
Members who identify as:
LGBTQI2S
Living with a disability
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
All members are eligible for the Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program. Are you interested in participating in this pro
No
Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
The Union’s Northern Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program funds in-person visits to northern Ontario schools when possible. Ar
No
